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"No matter how varied the sound is distinctively Desmarais. It is sensitive and aware, spirited and in control but that control comes with a liberty in improvisation and creative impulses that flow with an abandon throughout her artistry."
John Devenish, Jazz.fm
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"Her music making is an experience of colors and shading, light and perspective of depth and surfaces and nuance."
John Devenish, Jazz.fm
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What's as great about her big band music is the big band playing her music, a Who's Who of the Montreal jazz scene...also spotlighted was carnivorous tenor saxist Andre Leroux, and, really, Lorraine spotlights them all.
Steven Cerra, Jazz Profiles
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The musicians display unbridled virtuosity as well as unusual musical instinct as they bring cohesion to the many disparate elements of the music and generate tremendous high-voltage tension and hair-raising orchestral ingenuity to this music from beginning to end of this exquisite disc.
Raul da Gama, Jazz and Improvised, The Whole Note
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This is the first recording of this big band and if they are as well programed and arranged in the future she should be a force to be reckoned with.
Cadence Magazine (New York) – PAPATAMUS